On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> As you may know virt-v2v can use the Export Storage Domain (ESD) to > upload converted virtual machines to oVirt. It was brought to my > attention yesterday that the ESD feature is being dropped, so this > will no longer work at some point in the future. (BTW I would > appreciate notice if you're going to drop major features that we rely on.) > We are not dropping it tomorrow. We are slowly deprecating it. > > Although virt-v2v can still work via the GUI, this isn't really > suitable for bulk, scripted upload of hundreds or thousands of VMs. > > The ESD method was never very good. It was sort of an undocumented > back door into oVirt, and it was slow, and still required manual > intervention (after virt-v2v had done its job, you still needed to go > through the GUI and import the guests into the Data Domain). > > What we really need is a fully scripted method to upload VMs -- > metadata and disk images -- to oVirt. Maybe one exists already? If > not, what's the best way to do this? > And indeed, we won't deprecate it without a suitable replacement. While you can already upload disks, we are working towards upload/download of VMs. See http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/virt/enhance-import-export-with-ova/ Y. > > Rich. > > -- > Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~ > rjones > Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com > libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, > bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
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